Practice Areas

Immigration

We represent businesses and individuals with respect to employment-based immigration applications and issues.

This includes non-immigrant or temporary visa applications, such as for professionals, investors, multinational transferees, those deemed to have extraordinary abilities, religious workers, sports and entertainment professionals and others (in the following categories: H, E, L, O, P, R and I); and immigrant visas or permanent resident applications, such as for persons of extraordinary ability, outstanding professors or researchers, multinational executives and managers, those fulfilling a need deemed to be in the national interest and other employees, through the labor certification process.

We represent family based permanent resident petitions, such as for spouses or other close family members.

Commercial and Transactional

Our work spans a broad spectrum of issues for recently-founded as well as well-established companies, entrepreneurs, investors andlenders.

In heavily regulated industries such as financial services, including banking, insurance, and money service businesses, we understand the nuances of continually evolving regulations. In industries such as entertainment, we are experienced deal makers.

We act as counsel on:

Corporate structure: forming domestic and foreign corporations, limited liability companies, general and limited partnerships and all forms of joint ventures.

Corporate agreements: negotiating and preparing domestic and international sales and distribution agreements, joint ventures and similar arrangements, asset and stock purchase agreements, mergers and other combinations.

Finance: drafting, reviewing and negotiating all forms of loans and corporate and business financing transactions.

General Counsel Services

We have a long history of offering general counsel services, which serve as a cost effective way for businesses to have access to permanent and integral strategic legal planning and manage the legal issues encountered in everyday business operations.